Virex

Anyone else here use Guzzlefish to keep track of your DVD collection? It's a website that allows you to keep a database of your DVD collection, as well as your CDs and video games if you so desire. It will even keep your "stats", such as the amount of money your collection is worth, the number of out-of-print discs you have, and who your "favorite" directors, actors, and film genres are, among other things. You can also make a wishlist of titles that you want to get.

The site keeps a total of the statistics for the entire site, so you can see what the most popular DVD is (hint: it's the first movie in a trilogy which we're waiting for the third movie for), and you can also see what other users have got. So, if you've got an album that you think you're the only person in the world that likes, you can find out if someone else has it, and see what other titles they've got that you might enjoy.

It's totally free, and for the most part, inputting titles is a breeze--all you have to do is type in the UPC number, and it's in. Takes a little while if you've got a lot of stuff, but I'm glad I did it.

And there's also links to my CD and game collections there, at the top of the page. (Oh, and save any snarky comments about the Playboy Anna Nicole Smith or Showgirls DVDs, will ya? I've already made fun of them in my own self-deprecating way earlier in this thread. Thanks.)

Very easy to use and update. A few upc codes didn't work and some of my movies didn't have them due to being promotional items, but it's easy enough to look them up by title and add them to your collection.

Thanks again, Virex.

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Virex

Very easy to use and update. A few upc codes didn't work and some of my movies didn't have them due to being promotional items, but it's easy enough to look them up by title and add them to your collection.

Thanks again, Virex.

Hey, no problem. Glad you guys like it (even had to put a couple of titles from your collection on my wish list, Mikey).

You mentioned one of the two issues I have with Guzzlefish--the first being that a few of the UPCs didn't work. I had that happen to me, too.

My other (bigger) problem is that for box sets (and this goes for both DVDs and CDs) that have multiple movies (or albums), they're only counted as one title. So, like with the Die Hard box set for example, it only counts for one, while I personally count it as three, three different movies.

It has especially affected my CDs total, where I have several box sets with three, four, or five albums in them, that are only counted as one. My Led Zeppelin: The Complete Studio Recordings box, which is nine albums, only counts as one on their list.

I've considered going back and taking the box sets out, and putting the individual albums in, as the number would be closer to what I actually have, but I'm still undecided on that.

I agree with you on how guzzlefish counts movies. Before guzzlefish, I had everything listed in an excel spreadsheet where I labeled each movie individually (all three Godfather movies seperate, ditto with BttF, DH and the Godzilla box set, among others). In excel, I have 146 movies. On guzzlefish, 130. No biggie, but they should count each as an individual movie.